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Upcoming Masses celebrate contributions of lay Catholics
September 19, 2019Three archdiocesan Masses, to be held in October, will celebrate the work and ministry of laypeople in the church.
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Memories of September 11 attacks linger for former fire department chaplain
September 10, 2019Msgr. John Delendick, a longtime New York Fire Department chaplain who is currently pastor of St. Jude Church in Brooklyn, remembers Sept. 11, 2001, vividly. At the time of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, Msgr. Delendick had just finished celebrating Mass at St. Michael’s Church, Brooklyn, where he was pastor.
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Pinecrest Academy opens new lower school building
September 5, 2019Faculty, staff, students and families of Pinecrest Academy gathered to celebrate the opening of the new lower school building on Wednesday, Aug. 7.
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Papal nuncio encourages African clergy, sisters at Fairburn convention
September 5, 2019Each year, members of the African Conference of Catholic Clergy and Religious in the United States (ACCCRUS) gather to support and learn from another. From July 24-27, ACCCRUS held its 20th annual convention in Fairburn, with a keynote address by Archbishop Christophe Pierre, apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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My grandmother’s enduring love for family
September 5, 2019One photo shows a plump woman wearing a plain dress and gazing shyly into the camera. Another shows her on the beach, hiding partially behind her husband and dressed in a skirted bathing suit complete with long stockings. This is my maternal grandmother, Rose Bibbo, a lady whom I never met, but greatly admire.
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The Senior Side: the WHO ministry after the loss of a spouse
September 5, 2019The WHO ministry is a parish ministry of committed men and women who have experienced the loss of a spouse and are attempting to build new lives. Their purpose is to help one another by sharing feelings from others who are traveling the same journey.
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Perfect and living compounds
September 5, 2019God’s life is in us. We are made in his image and likeness—a human/divine compound in which the human cannot be understood apart from its divine dimension.
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Reencuentro Familiar reunites elderly Mexicans with family in Georgia
September 5, 2019Our Lady of the Americas Mission took action with compassion to reunite Mexican immigrants with their aged parents from Hidalgo, Mexico, for 20 days in Georgia after decades of family separation.
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Sister Louise Sommer bids Atlanta farewell
September 5, 2019After nearly a lifetime in Atlanta, St. Louis native Sister Louise Sommer, a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, is returning to her Missouri community. St. Lawrence Church will honor her with a Sept. 21 reception.
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Trappist priest remembered for forming deep connections with others
September 5, 2019Father James Behrens, OCSO, died on Aug. 15. He was 71 and a monk for 25 years and priest for 45 years. He entered the Cistercian order at the Monastery of Our Lady of the Holy Spirit in Conyers in 1994. Before that he was a priest for 20 years in the Newark Archdiocese.